TY - THES
T1 - Advanced user interfaces for spatial information
A1 - Schöning,Johannes
Y1 - 2012/08/21
N2 - For 6000 years, humans have used maps to navigate through space and complete other spatial tasks. These depictions of the Earth or other phenomenon (e.g the Moon and cognitive maps) as a set of symbols and at a scale, whose representative fraction was less than 1:1, were created by humans to support daily activities. For nearly all of these 6000 years, maps were drawn or printed on a piece of paper or on material like stone or papyrus. In the 1960s, the digital map arrived. At the beginning of the digital map revolution, the desktop terminal had an effective monopoly on the display and interaction with digital maps. Recently, devices spanning the entirety of Mark Weiser's ubiquitous computing spectrum { from tiny cell phones to enormous wall-sized displays { are beginning to be used for digital mapping activities. However, as this transition has occurred, it has become obvious that the map user interfaces implemented on desktop computers fail to function in these new ubiquitous computing contexts.
In this PhD thesis, we investigate new user interfaces that allow intuitive interaction with digital spatial information on a wide range of ubiquitous computing devices. We identify user interfaces (UI) problems, design and build innovative new UIs, and test whether these new UIs contributed solutions to the problems. All different sizes of devices are considered, from mobile augmented reality interfaces to mobile projection interfaces to largescale interactive multi-touch surfaces. New ndings about how people interact with analogue spatial information in combination with digital spatial information are derived. All interfaces follow the core design principle of simple is fun. Digital spatial information will play an increasingly larger and larger role in many of our day-to-day and longer-term decisions. Therefore, good user interfaces are needed to interact with this information.
KW - Karte
KW - Raumdaten
KW - Computerkartographie
KW - Schnittstelle
KW - Benutzeroberfläche
CY - Saarbrücken
PB - Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
AD - Postfach 151141, 66041 Saarbrücken
UR - http://scidok.sulb.uni-saarland.de/volltexte/2012/4926
ER -